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Nine-year-old Kiara Milner lives<br />
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She was born with part of her<br />
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Her grandmother, Angela Milner,<br />
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Just five days later, doctors<br />
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“Each one is a testament to her<br />
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Kiara’s fight began before she<br />
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Instead, Milner said, they made<br />
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time they might have with her.<br />
“They chose love over fear.”<br />
That choice has carried Kiara<br />
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Angela Milner is fundraising for her granddaughter Kiara to attend weekly therapy at the new Centre of Movement, after earlier<br />
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intensive therapy.<br />
“We held on to the hope that<br />
perhaps, one day, she might<br />
begin to take steps with support.<br />
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For more than a decade,<br />
Florence “Flow” Waaka has<br />
been cooking meals and<br />
offering warmth to those doing<br />
it tough.<br />
Waaka, 58, started Feed a Bro<br />
after being judged by others<br />
while seeking help to feed her<br />
family 10 years ago.<br />
“I was struggling on a benefit<br />
with a son and I was looking<br />
after my grandkids at the time,”<br />
she said.<br />
One of her friends told her<br />
a free food service was being<br />
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“So I went in, and all I could<br />
hear was people saying, ‘what’s<br />
that lady doing here? She<br />
shouldn’t be here, she’s got a<br />
car and she doesn’t look like she<br />
needs these feeds’.”<br />
She said just because she had<br />
a car, people assumed she was<br />
well off.<br />
“The free food we got during<br />
the week helped me and my<br />
family to survive.”<br />
The experience left a sour<br />
taste in her mouth, so Waaka<br />
decided to set up her own free,<br />
non-judgemental meal service.<br />
“I don’t judge anyone because<br />
I’m in the same boat as a lot of<br />
them. I really am.”<br />
Waaka organises free weekly<br />
meals at The Margaret Mahy<br />
Family Playground on Mondays,<br />
and in Cathedral Square on<br />
Tuesdays.<br />
She also takes food out to<br />
Flow Waaka says about 30 people turn up for a meal each time she runs her free feeds.<br />
homeless people living in the<br />
red zone.<br />
“It’s never really planned.<br />
Just whenever I can, wherever<br />
there’s a need.”<br />
She said the meals weren’t<br />
only for those sleeping rough,<br />
but low income people with<br />
families as well.<br />
“They’re for anyone that’s<br />
struggling. A lot of people<br />
are too humble to go to these<br />
feeds and won’t go when they<br />
should.”<br />
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Known as ‘flowsfeeds’ on Tik-<br />
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“It’s the only way I can keep this<br />
going – let people see what I’m<br />
doing to get more food donations.<br />
“I get a lot of feedback<br />
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also get a lot of hate too.”<br />
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for people in need<br />
think homeless people and<br />
people on a low incomes don’t<br />
deserve me doing this and they<br />
need to get out and get a job.<br />
“Well it’s okay for them to say<br />
that.”<br />
Waaka said high rents and<br />
the price of food going up were<br />
forcing some people to live in<br />
their cars.<br />
“Everything is just skyrocketing.<br />
I know what it’s like<br />
struggling with all the prices of<br />
food right now.”<br />
The beneficiary isn’t aligned to<br />
any charity or organisation.<br />
“I look at it like it’s my job,<br />
it’s what I do. Even though I’m<br />
getting a benefit from the government,<br />
I feel like I’m giving<br />
back, by what I'm doing.”<br />
Waaka has found it hard to<br />
find work, as she doesn’t have<br />
any qualifications.<br />
At one point she was also<br />
homeless with her son and two<br />
grandchildren.<br />
“I was working part-time and<br />
then my daughter needed some<br />
help. It wasn’t working out with<br />
childcare and all that, so I threw<br />
my job in to look after them.”<br />
She said rent became too<br />
much to afford and she was out<br />
on the street.<br />
“I was staying at my sister’s<br />
and living in a car for probably<br />
about eight months before I got<br />
a house through Kāinga Ora.”<br />
She said much of the country<br />
still lacks compassion or understanding<br />
around the causes of<br />
homelessness.<br />
Flow Waaka and her volunteer<br />
helpers at The Margaret Mahy Family<br />
Playground always have a line-up of<br />
people needing a free meal.<br />
“Yes, some choose it, but<br />
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whether that’s losing a job or<br />
rent going up.”<br />
Waaka encourages people not<br />
to simply “walk away” when<br />
they see others struggling.<br />
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something for them. It doesn’t<br />
matter if it’s just making a pot<br />
of food and taking it down to<br />
them. There’s a lot of homeless<br />
people out there.”<br />
She said she was always<br />
looking for things to do and<br />
ways to encourage people to<br />
donate goods to “keep this thing<br />
going”.<br />
“This is it. This is my life.”<br />
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Historic Heathcote<br />
school bell taken<br />
BY KEES CHALMERS<br />
A stolen 165-year-old school bell<br />
is believed to have been cut up<br />
and an attempt made to sell it<br />
for scrap.<br />
The Heathcote Valley School<br />
bell was stolen over the weekend<br />
of September 27-28.<br />
Principal Bruce Ellison said<br />
he was told by a parent the<br />
person involved in the theft<br />
attempted to take the cut-up<br />
bronze bell to a scrap metal<br />
yard, but it was not accepted.<br />
“It’s got a lot of significance<br />
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been there for so long, it’s an<br />
iconic piece of our identity,”<br />
Ellison said.<br />
Said school board member<br />
and parent Luke Gardiner:<br />
“The reaction is extremely sad,<br />
I didn’t think that was something<br />
that would happen with<br />
the amount of years it’s hung<br />
there.”<br />
Ellison took a photo of where<br />
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Monday, September 29, during<br />
the school holidays. Two days<br />
later, he looked at the photo and<br />
realised the bell was missing.<br />
He assumed it had been taken<br />
over the weekend.<br />
The bell is believed to have<br />
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was founded in 1860 by Captain<br />
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The school was established at<br />
Heathcote Valley School’s bronze bell<br />
was stolen during the school holidays.<br />
its current location in 1864.<br />
The bell, which Ellison<br />
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Many generations of children<br />
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CROSSWORD<br />
1 2 3 4 5 6 7<br />
8 9<br />
10 11<br />
12 13 14 15<br />
16<br />
17 18<br />
19<br />
20 21 22 23 24<br />
25 26<br />
421<br />
SUDOKU<br />
Every row, column and box should<br />
contain the digits 1 to 9.<br />
WordBuilder<br />
WORDBUILDER<br />
D S E<br />
S K I<br />
6<br />
321 321<br />
S K I<br />
words of three or more letters,<br />
How<br />
including<br />
many<br />
plurals,<br />
words<br />
can you<br />
of<br />
make<br />
three<br />
from<br />
or<br />
the<br />
more<br />
six<br />
letters, using each letter only once? No foreign<br />
How words or beginning with a capital are<br />
from many<br />
allowed.<br />
the words<br />
There's<br />
six letters, of three<br />
at least one<br />
using or more<br />
six-letter<br />
each letters,<br />
word.<br />
only<br />
including once? plurals, can you make from the six<br />
TODAY<br />
letters, Good using 17 each Very letter Good only 20 once? Excellent No 23 foreign<br />
No words beginning with a capital are<br />
words<br />
allowed.<br />
Solution or words 320:<br />
There’s<br />
cedi, beginning cap, deck, with<br />
at least<br />
dice, a dick, capital<br />
one<br />
die,<br />
six-letter<br />
dike, are<br />
allowed. dip, epic, There's ice, iced, at kepi, least kid, one kip, peck, six-letter pic, pick, word.<br />
word. PICKED, pie, pied, pike, TODAY piked.<br />
Good 17 Very Good 20 Excellent 23<br />
letters, including plurals, can you make<br />
Solution 320: cedi, cap, deck, dice, dick, die, dike,<br />
dip, epic, ice, iced, kepi, kid, kip, peck, pic, pick,<br />
PICKED, pie, pied, pike, piked.<br />
27 28<br />
29 30<br />
31 32<br />
33 34<br />
Across<br />
1. Abhorrence (6)<br />
5. Scribble (6)<br />
10. Overturn (7)<br />
11. Examine in detail (7)<br />
12. Window set in roof (6)<br />
15. Metallic element, Co (6)<br />
16. 10-sided figure (7)<br />
17. Frigid (4)<br />
18. Circular current of water (4)<br />
19. Dictionary (7)<br />
20. Swelling, bruise (4)<br />
22. Throw (4)<br />
25. Curving, snake-like (7)<br />
27. Chevron (6)<br />
28. Wobble (6)<br />
31. Refuse an offer (7)<br />
32. Rower (7)<br />
33. Person owing money (6)<br />
34. Breathe out (6)<br />
Decoder<br />
Down<br />
2. Clothing (7)<br />
3. Destroyed (6)<br />
4. Sketched (4)<br />
5. Fraud (4)<br />
6. Logic (6)<br />
7. Wilful, disobedient (7)<br />
8. Sour or bitter tasting (6)<br />
9. Aristocracy (6)<br />
13. Daydream (7)<br />
14. Largest possible quantity (7)<br />
15. Palm tree fruit (7)<br />
20. Adjacent (6)<br />
21. Amazing occurrence (7)<br />
23. Best, most favourable (7)<br />
24. Become smaller (6)<br />
25. Dash (6)<br />
26. Seek (6)<br />
29. Close (4)<br />
30. Small, sheltered bay (4)<br />
Crossword<br />
Across: 1. Hatred, 5. Scrawl, 10. Capsize, 11. Analyse, 12. Dormer, 15. Cobalt,<br />
16. Decagon, 17. Cold, 18. Eddy, 19. Lexicon, 20. Bump, 22. Toss, 25. Sinuous,<br />
27. Stripe, 28. Teeter, 31. Decline, 32. Oarsman, 33. Debtor, 34. Exhale.<br />
Down: 2. Apparel, 3. Ruined, 4. Drew, 5. Sham, 6. Reason, 7. Wayward, 8.<br />
Acidic, 9. Gentry, 13. Reverie, 14. Maximum, 15. Coconut, 20. Beside, 21.<br />
Miracle, 23. Optimal, 24. Shrink, 25. Sprint, 26. Search, 29. Near, 30. Cove.<br />
WordBuilder<br />
Desk, desks, die, dies, dike, dikes, disk, disks, diss, ides, ids, kid, kids, kiss,<br />
KISSED, side, sides, sis, ski, skid, skids, skied, skies, skis.<br />
DECODER<br />
Each number represents a different letter of the alphabet. Write the<br />
given letters into all squares with matching numbers. Now work out<br />
which letters are represented by the other numbers.<br />
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